The top 10 infectious disease pitfalls that hospitalists can avoid

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-45

  Paige, Neil M ^a   Vazirani, Sondra S ^a   Graber, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobials bacteremia; Candida; Clostridium difficile infection; Penicillin allergy

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; AMOXICILLIN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZTREONAM; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUCONAZOLE; ISONIAZID; LEVOFLOXACIN; MAGNESIUM; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; SULFONAMIDE; SULFONYLUREA DERIVATIVE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE DISEASE; ADD ON THERAPY; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIURIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BRONCHOSPASM; CANDIDA; CANDIDEMIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONSULTATION; DESENSITIZATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG METABOLISM; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEVER; FUNGUS CULTURE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL STAFF; PATIENT CARE; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PYURIA; QT INTERVAL; REVIEW; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; UROLOGIC SURGERY; URTICARIA;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEVICE REMOVAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALISTS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 74949132919     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.515     Document Type: Review

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